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Crash house couple are just yards from another disaster
Miriam and Ormond Robin with Councillor Lisa Smith
A COUPLE who have only just moved back into their home after boy racers ploughed into it in September have been left shaken after another vehicle came perilously close to causing a second disaster.
Miriam and Ormond Robin were shocked when they saw skid marks on the grass outside their home in Oliffe Way, Aylesbury, indicating a car had once again lost control on the Buckingham Road roundabout next to the street.
The marks, left on Sunday afternoon, show the vehicle came within just five feet of their property.
Miriam said: “It could have come into our kitchen, it could have been another disaster. We have only been back a week so it’s very frightening.
“It appears that the vehicle came off the roundabout and cut across the grass verge and the paving verge. It came within five feet of our fence.”
The couple are once again calling on Bucks County Council to make the roundabout safer – and at the very least install crash barriers to protect pedestrians and homes.
Miriam said: “We need crash barriers. If anybody had been walking along they’d have been killed. We’re either going to get someone killed or there’s going to be another disaster like the one five months ago.
She said the couple, who had been staying with their daughter and son-in-law in Tring Road while the house was repaired, were glad to be back home.
But she added: “I feel very unsafe in my own home. We really can’t relax.
“With this now happening you just don’t know what’s going to come next. We feel nervous.”
District councillor Lisa Smith, who lives nearby, has called on the county council to take action.
She said: “I’m concerned there doesn’t seem to be any feedback from the council to people whose home has been damaged. They need to look at it very seriously.
“People don’t seem to know how to use the roundabout because of the big paving area. People shoot straight across it, go very fast and lose control.”
Peter Hardy, cabinet member for planning and transport at the county council, said: “Unfortunately there appears to have been an incident on Oliffe Way roundabout involving a car.
“Understandably residents are anxious following the collision last year.
“We would like to reassure them that as a result of that collision our road safety team has been recording speed data in order to ascertain whether improvements can be made.
“We will also be putting down more white lines later this month to encourage drivers to be considerate of their speed and positioning on the roundabout.
“One of my managers has gone out to talk to the residents of Oliffe Way and we are very much mindful of their concerns.”
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Saturday 26 May 2012
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JR
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 01:15 PMThe only 'skid marks' are in my underwear every time I read about another daft money spending idea from AVDC or BCC
Aylesbury Duck
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 12:42 PMThey are not "SKID" marks, a car has been driven round the pavement under control, no sign of skidding. Like others say, a few boulders or 6 meters of Armco will save us council tax payers a fortune.
AylesburyFella
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 04:53 PMI hope they choose the jump option I wrote in about. Those at the highest speed can clear the entire lightsjunction complete and providing a good landing carry on up Buckingham road...
JR
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 03:41 PMYou have to wonder if this was a setup? Did they deliberately drive over there in order to strengthen their case with the council? As for removing the roundabout - how much will that cost? Would it not be cheaper to drop some large boulders along that verge (the kind they use to keep pikeys off the greens)?
AylesburyFella
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 10:38 AMNot a chance in a million years this was a speeding car!! On snowslush to get round that corner AND turn back into the road avoiding the houses AND at speed!!! Not a chance. A car has merely driven across there. Would be interesting to get the photographers take on it, or other pictures ie the churned up grass if there was any etc. They bought a house that couldn't be any closer to the road and a kid ran into it in a stolen car. From memory he didn't even have a license did he?? That makes it now an accident blackspot??!!
RGM
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 05:05 PMSurely the blame for all this trouble should be laid at the planning departments door. Who in their right mind would approve a house being built in line with the flow of traffic, It always looked like an accident waiting to happen.
JR
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 02:54 PM"“We will also be putting down more white lines later this month to encourage drivers to be considerate of their speed and positioning on the roundabout." :-D :-D :-D Only in Aylesbury :-D When will the idiots in power ever learn? There is a moronic minority who drive like they really don't care - do they honestly believe that a bit of paint will stop them? The only reason there aren't more accidents is simply because the good drivers take evasive action.
damo
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:30 AMtheses are not skid marks they are tire tracks of someone who wanted to jump the que in the morning.I use this roundabout every day and have seen people do this who want to turn left at the lights.Take a chill pill Mr and Mrs Robin
andydg52
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:16 AMThey may have driven their own car across the snowy grass to make it look like that.
Neilbra
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 09:31 AM“We would like to reassure them that as a result of that collision our road safety team has been recording speed data in order to ascertain whether improvements can be made. " Here is an idea, remove the pointless roundabout! There was NEVER any need for it in the first place, just like the majority of so called highway "improvements"
bigtime
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 09:19 AMA couple of joyriding kids crash into a house and the roundabout is a black spot. By the looks of things, the snowice was a bigger factor in this incident, so it could have happened at any roundabout. It's time to start demanding crash barriers at all roundabouts that might see ice and snow if you ask me...
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